Your Weekend Moment of Psychic Nosebleed Zen: Suicide Squad

April 19th, 2008

Filed under: Comics, Medicine

Scene from Suicide Squad #17
In Suicide Squad #17, the villainous team Jihad attacks New York City in revenge for the United States sending the Suicide Squad to pre-emptively attack Jihad earlier in the series. In this scene, the villain Badb (named after an Irish goddess) attacks a crowd waiting for the subway.

CSI: Suicide SquadThis scene sets up the CSI: Suicide Squad post from earlier this week.

In this storyline, a reason for Badb’s victims exhibiting a nosebleed is given. It makes no sense anatomically, but at least the attempt is made. Her powers cause a cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in or around the brain), and this is what causes the nosebleed. Of course in real life, the brain is encased in the dura mater (a thick membrane surrounding the brain) and the skull. There’s no way bleeding in the brain will leak out without a major physical trauma as well — but maybe the anatomy of the head is different in the DC Universe.

nosebleed zenAll previous Psychic Nosebleed Zen posts

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One Response to “ Your Weekend Moment of Psychic Nosebleed Zen: Suicide Squad ”

  1. Dr Archeville
    April 20th, 2008 at 9:28 am

    Or maybe the brain bleeds so much the internal pressure rises enough to burst the dura mater?

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